When Howard Edwin May was born on 10 October 1896, in Orosi, Tulare, California, United States, his father, William Phillip May, was 49 and his mother, Emma Jane Schulkins, was 38. He married Beulah May Rinearson on 30 July 1936, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. He lived in Notus Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Sunnymead, Moreno Valley, Riverside, California, United States in 1961. He died on 26 October 1996, in Payette, Idaho, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Emmett, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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English: from the Middle English male personal name May, a pet form of Matthew (see Mayhew ).
English, Dutch, and German: from a personal name or nickname taken from the month of May (Middle English, Old French mai, Middle High German meie, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a minor Roman goddess of fertility). This name was sometimes bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May; it was also used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then. In England, this name was possibly also a pet form of Mary or Margaret. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine) and Denmark.
English: nickname from Middle English mey, may ‘kinsman’.
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